Aug 09 2023
9 August 1975: Jill Forster and John Stanton (The Box) 9 August 2003: Claudia Karvan and Vince Colosimo (The Secret Life Of Us) 9 August 2008: Jodi Gordon and Paul O’Brien (Home And Away) 9 August 1968: Regional Queensland station MVQ6, Mackay, is officially opened — Seven Mackay turns 45 [2013] 9 August 1996: Peter …
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Aug 03 2023
3 August 1968: Ed Devereaux (Skippy The Bush Kangaroo) 3 August 1974: Rod Mullinar and Brenda Addie (Bellbird) 3 August 1991: Rebecca Gibney (All Together Now) 3 August 1996: Melissa George and Corey Glaister (Home And Away) 3 August 2002: Georgie Parker (All Saints) 3 August 2002: Claudia Karvan and Samuel Johnson (The Secret Life …
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Jul 16 2023
16 July 1977: Ross Higgins, Noeline Brown, Kevin Golsby (The Naked Vicar Show) 16 July 1977: Graham Kennedy (Blankety Blanks) 16 July 2005: Big Brother 16 July 1956: Melbourne’s HSV7 commences its first test transmissions ahead of its official launch in November. The test transmissions, which include test patterns and short documentary films, are set …
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Jul 05 2023
5 July 1975: Skyhooks 5 July 2003: Sibylla Budd and Dan Spielman (The Secret Life Of Us) 5 July 1964: The 1957 film Heaven Knows Mr Allison is broadcast on GTV9, Melbourne. Starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum, the film went on to become the decade’s highest rating movie screening — attracting a rating of 59 …
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Jul 31 2022
In 2002 the biggest battle in the TV landscape wasn’t on screen but was based around duelling TV magazines. For over 20 years, TV Week had a national monopoly on the market, published by Southdown Press (later Pacific Publications) on behalf of a joint venture between it and Australian Consolidated Press (ACP). This arrangement was …
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Mar 21 2022
Alan Hopgood, veteran actor and playwright, has died from cancer at the age of 87. Born in Tasmania, Hopgood made his TV acting debut in 1957, starring in the ABC play Sound Of Thunder. He went on to appear in a number of one-off plays for television including Tragedy In A Temporary Town, Antony And …
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May 18 2021
In May 1981, the Seven Network and Crawford Productions had announced plans to produce a new Sydney-based crime drama, The Squad, with a telemovie pilot soon to go into production. It was heralded as the first Sydney-based series from the Melbourne-based Crawford empire, which had several successful cop dramas under its belt by this …
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Mar 14 2020
YouTube: southaustraliatv Of all the vintage soaps to get a new lease on life online, Network Ten‘s Echo Point would have been way down the list of likely candidates. It ranks on the list of some of Australian TV’s most infamous soapie disasters among such titles like Arcade, Holiday Island, Paradise Beach and Family And …
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Sep 03 2018
This week Neighbours (6.30pm weeknights, Eleven) makes Australian television history with its first same-sex wedding. Aaron Brennan (Matt Wilson) and David Tanaka (Takaya Honda) will be wed by celebrant Jemima Davies-Smythe, played by Magda Szubanski. Actor, comedian and writer Szubanski was a prominent spokesperson in the marriage equality campaign which culminated in same sex marriage becoming legal in Australia …
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Jan 26 2017
Stone the flamin’ crows! Alf Stewart has been honoured this Australia Day. Ray Meagher, the actor now in his 30th year Home And Away‘s Alf, has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in this year’s Australia Day Honours. The honour is in recognition of Meagher’s “service to the performing arts as an actor”. …
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